Robert De Niro launched the verbal attack while introducing Meryl Streep

According to Infowars, De Niro then accused Trump of putting the First Amendment in peril, ranting, “Our government today, with the propping [up] of our baby-in-chief – the jerkoff-in-chief I call him – has put the press under siege, trying to discredit it through outrageous attacks and lies.”

The timing of the attack was odd, given that Trump had literally completed a one-hour meeting with the press just hours earlier, and was even praised for his openness by some journalists.

Someone may also want to remind De Niro that Obama used the Espionage Act to put a record number of journalists in jail.

Speaking about Streep’s movie The Post, which is about the publication of the Pentagon Papers, De Niro continued, “The movie gave us glimpses of President Nixon as delusional, narcissistic, petty, vindictive, nasty and bats*** f***ing crazy. Ah, the good old days.”